Design & Delivery of Refugee Mentoring Schemes

Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration (RASI) is a division within UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) service within the Home Office and wish to procure a contract (or contracts) for the design, delivery and evaluation of two separate mentoring pilots for Refugees; -

1. A Refugee Employment Mentoring Scheme to enable Home Office civil servants to share their learning and experience of working in the UK with refugees. The purpose is to enhance employment prospects of refugees.

2. A Refugee Peer Mentoring Scheme that enables refugees to share their learning and experience of all aspects of integration with newly resettled refugees. The purpose is to support the integration of refugees.

RASI are seeking to procure either one contract covering both schemes, or two contracts, one for each of the schemes up to a value of £50,000 each for the period October 2020 to 31 March 2021.

The timetable for the procurement is, (although this could be subject to change);

Contracts Finder Notice/Invitation To Tender: 21 August 2020;

Clarification Period for Potential Tenderers to raise questions via the Home Office e-learning portal: 24 August 2020 to 07 September 2020

Deadline for tenders: 11.00 17 September 2020

Evaluation of tenders: 18 September - 30 September 2020

Notification of Award of Contract: w/c 05 October 2020

To register please see the section "Attachments/Additional Text" below. Tenderers must be registered on the Home Office e-sourcing portal to gain access to the event and documentation.

Additional information: Registration Information:

The Home Office manages its competitions using it's own e-Sourcing portal. This competition (event) will be administered using the Home Office (HO) Jaggaer e-Sourcing portal.

In order to bid for funding, bidders will first need to register on the portal via the following link:

https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

Bidders should be approved for registration within 24 hours of registering on the system.

After clicking on the e-Sourcing portal link, you will gain access to the home page. On the left-hand side of this page, just below the login boxes, there is an option to register.

To register as a supplier you will need to provide information including;

• the full legal name of your organisation
• your DUNS number - a unique nine-digit number provided to organisations free of charge by Dun & Bradstreet
• profile information describing your organisation and the size of your business.

If you do not have a DUNS number, please contact D&B UK directly on 0870 243 2344 (option 3), or online at http://www.dnb.co.uk/duns-form.asp.

Once registered as a supplier on the portal, please email confirmation requesting access to the event, including the text "Design and Delivery of Mentoring Schemes for Refugees" in the title, to:

RASIcommercialgrantsteam@homeoffice.gov.uk.

You will then be given access to the event which will include all the documentation you will need in order to bid.

*Please note that from this point all further communications including the submission of your online bid will be managed via the portal.

It is imperative you test your portal connection and become familiar with how to submit your bid well in advance of the deadline date. It is conceivable that because the portal operates on the web, internet traffic may affect performance of the portal and this cannot be cited as reason to seek an extension to the submission deadline date.

If you have any difficulties registering on the system you should contact the Supplier e-Sourcing Helpdesk:

customersupport@jaggaer.com

The HO Jaggaer e-Sourcing portal is independent of other e-Sourcing portals. Therefore, if you have registered on the Crown Commercial Service Jaggaer e-Sourcing portal, you will also need to register on the HO Jaggaer e-Sourcing portal.

Please note that bids will only be accepted via the HO e-Sourcing portal. Any bids received outside of this system will not be considered by the Authority.